Ultra Farou Nationalist said:A relationship is highly unfeasible, due to the radically different natures of Arkage and Faronun language- Arkage is Cuneiform, while Faronun is a system of consonants appended to a vowel line.
All civilized people are aware that the Arkage language and Seshweay languages are removed from each other. The Arkage adopted Old Seshweay norms of writing using Cuniform, which was better suited to their language (guttural and unbecoming as it is). Modern Seshweay is derived from a slightly newer, but ancient source, an alphabet of some 13 characters, which is better suited to the spelling and peculiarities of the organization of the language.
Igaen Laoreda said:By this record, the Seshweay had not yet developed the written language for which it was later so famous. It is entirely possible that Seshweay developed their language at a later point, in tandem or influenced by the Arkage.
Incorrect. Old Seshweay was still written by the Oligarchs and the Priesthoods in the City States days, but the majority of the population had already transferred over to Traditional Seshweay which is what the text is referring to. Linguistically Traditional Seshweay is closest to today's Ti-Sesh Seshweay (and is still spoken in former-Bahra in some places). The Arkage after a time came to develop Ark Seshweay which is a dialect of Seshweay with heavy Arkage influence. Very few words of Arkage have made their way into the other dialects of Seshweay, Ti-Sesh, Siesite, Ex-Sesh, Ma-Seshm, Traditional Seshweay and Ai-Sesh. All of which corrospond to a sub-set of the Seshweay population:
Ti-Sesh - Ti-Sehorsehockyes in the South speak;
Siesite - Spoken by the inhabbitants of Sies and the Delta;
Ex-Sesh - Spoken by the Exiles;
Ma-Seshm - Spoken by the Far Exiles;
Traditional Seshweay - Spoken by a small group in Bahra;
Ai-Sesh - Spoken by the Janians and people living under the Trilui Empire.
Igaen Laoreda said:It is noted that today, Faronun script makes use of 16 consonants and a vowel line. It is entirely possible that the use of consonants in ancient Trilui's alphabet was adopted by the scribes of early Farou, allowing our early systems to develop into a full-fledged written script. However, it remains equally possible that the consonants too were developed within Farou.
Siesite Seshweay shares many similarities with the Trilui languages, it is not unbelievable that it is the reverse, the Trilui borrowed our word for desert, and it is likely our written script as well. Given that we use the same characters, and have some similarities in structure (translating Trilui trade script is quite simple).
Igaen Laoreda said:I will conduct further research and maintain our correspondence.
Quite. You of course understand that the Lord Aya'se promised us that the Ancestors would be found in his daughters lifetime?
In any case, the Arkage when they invaded all those years ago, occupied the sites of our cities, integrated elements of our culture, worshiped bastardized versions of the ancestors and ruled as an occupying force. They did not have writing when they came to us, nor did the Bahra who were little better than the Satarai in terms of barbarity or any others, so say the Ancestors and the records of the First Republic.
We further extend our sympathies for the loss of your capital, many of us spent some portion of our time in exile there. We shall return, when it is rebuilt and beautiful once more (or when our homeland is overrun again... whichever comes first).
Most Honorable said:Uggor got their written characters/language from Thearak, who got theirs from the northern civilizations. So yeah, the southern peoples probably do owe a lot to the Seshweay when it comes to languages.
Quite.